30.959, Books: Pragmatic Aspects of Scalar Modifiers: Sawada

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Subject: 30.959, Books: Pragmatic Aspects of Scalar Modifiers: Sawada

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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 22:50:32
From: Alyssa Russell [Alyssa.Russell at oup.com]
Subject: Pragmatic Aspects of Scalar Modifiers: Sawada

 


Title: Pragmatic Aspects of Scalar Modifiers 
Subtitle: The Semantics-Pragmatics Interface 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/pragmatic-aspects-of-scalar-modifiers-9780198714224 


Author: Osamu Sawada

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198714224 Pages: 272 Price: U.S. $ 88.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9780198714231 Pages: 272 Price: U.S. $ 40.95


Abstract:

Editor’s Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced book.

This volume examines the meaning of scalar modifiers - expressions such as
more than, a bit, and much - from the standpoint of the interface between
semantics and pragmatics. In natural language, scalar expressions such as
comparatives, intensifiers, and minimizers are used for measuring an object or
event at a semantic level. However, cross-linguistically scalar modifiers can
often be used to express a range of subjective feelings or discourse pragmatic
information at the level of conventional implicature (CI). For example, in
English more than anything can signal the degree of importance of the given
utterance, and in Japanese the minimizer chotto 'a bit' can weaken the degree
of imposition of the speech act. In this book, Osamu Sawada draws on data from
Japanese and a range of other languages to explore the dual-use phenomenon of
scalar modifiers: he claims that although semantic scalar meanings and CI
scalar meanings are logically different, the relationship between the two
makes it crucial to examine them both together.

The volume provides a new perspective on the semantic-pragmatics interface,
and will be of interest to researchers and students of Japanese linguistics,
semantics and pragmatics, and theoretical linguistics more generally.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=132473




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